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North and south, Paul Moon
Te Wiremu – Henry Williams: Early Years in the North Caroline Fitzgerald (ed) Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781869694395 John Larkins Cheese Richardson: “The Gentlest, Bravest and Most Just of Men” Olive Trotter Otago University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781877578014 For…
Tagged with: Caroline Fitzgerald, Henry Williams, Huia, Issue 95, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Olive Trotter, Otago University Press, Paul Moon, Spring 2011
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Review
Cannibalism and communion, Andrew Fieldsend
This Horrid Practice: The Myth and Reality of Traditional Maori Cannibalism Paul Moon Penguin Books, $40.00, ISBN 9780143006718 Macaulay said that history was sometimes fiction, sometimes theory. But Paul Moon’s provocative and controversial book sets out to establish objective facts…
Tagged with: Andrew Fieldsend, Issue 86, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Winter 2009
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Troubled missionary, Paul Moon
God’s Messenger: J F Riemenschneider and Racial Conflict in 19th Century New Zealand Peter Oettli Huia, $55.00, ISBN 9781869693201 The lives of missionaries in 19th century New Zealand have tended to end up being documented in two forms. The first…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Huia, Issue 85, Paul Moon, Peter Oettli
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Rough justice, Tom Brooking
The Newest Country in the World: A History of New Zealand in the Decade of the Treaty Paul Moon Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 978014300670 Paul Moon is one of the most prolific historians currently holding an academic position (Moon is…
Tagged with: Issue 82, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Tom Brooking, Winter 2008
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review
Ripping yarns, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Fatal Frontiers: A New History of New Zealand in the Decade Before the Treaty Paul Moon Penguin Books, $39.95, ISBN 0143020595 “New Zealand was undergoing an identity crisis in the 1830s,” writes Paul Moon on the first page of his…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Issue 77, Paul Moon, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
View from the hilltop, Rawiri Taonui
State of the Maori Nation: Twenty-first Century Issues in Aotearoa Malcolm Mulholland and contributors Reed, $39.99, ISBN 0790010429 Ngapua: The Political Life of Hone Heke Ngapua Paul Moon David Ling, $39.99, ISBN 187737802X The Maori population doubled during the two…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Hone Heke Ngapua, Issue 75, Malcolm Mulholland, Paul Moon, Rawiri Taonui, Reed, Spring 2006
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Māori, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Hobson’s choice, Bryan Gilling
Te Ara Ki Te Tiriti: The Path to the Treaty of Waitangi Paul Moon David Ling, $29.95, ISBN 0908990839 The Treaty of Waitangi often appears to have sprung forth, fully formed, from William Hobson’s pen on 6 February 1840. Many…
Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, David Ling Publishing, Issue 59, Paul Moon, Spring 2002
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
The pommie twit and the puppetmaster, Tom Brooking
Hobson Governor of New Zealand 1840–42 Paul Moon David Ling, $49.95, ISBN 0 90899 054 5 To Be A Hero: A Biography of Sir George Grey, 1812–1898 Edmund Bohan HarperCollins, $49.95, ISBN 1 86950 279 5 It is hard to…
Tagged with: David Ling, Edmund Bohan, HarperCollins, Issue 38, Paul Moon, Tom Brooking
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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